Shabir Shah, President of the Jammu and Kashmir Democratic Freedom Party speaks to the media as he leaves after a meeting at Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi. Angered by Pakistan's consultations with Kashmiri separatists, India today called off next week's talks between Foreign Secretaries, telling it bluntly to choose between an Indo-Pak dialogue or hobnobbing with the separatists.

- PTI Photo/ Vijay Verma

Aug 18, 2014

Youths make a human pyramid to reach and break the “Dahi Handi,” as they celebrate Janamashtami in Mumbai.

- AP Photo/ Rafiq Maqbool

Aug 18, 2014

A man bends down in prayer as police try to disperse a small group of protesters in Ferguson, Mo, USA. The Aug. 9 shooting of Michael Brown by police has touched off rancorous protests in Ferguson, a St. Louis suburb where police have used riot gear and tear gas. Gov. Jay Nixon ordered the National Guard to help restore order while lifting a midnight-to-5 a.m. curfew that had been in place for two days.

- AP Photo/Jeff Roberson

Aug 18, 2014

Youths make a human pyramid to reach and break the “Dahi Handi,” as they celebrate Janamashtami in Mumbai.

- AP Photo/ Rafiq Maqbool

Aug 19, 2014

After the 3-1 drubbing in Tests, BCCI fall back on ol’ favourite Ravi Shastri to
try to pull India out of morass in England OD Is. Coach Fletcher on short leash, assts ‘rested’.

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Aug 19, 2014

CBI arrests CBFC chief Rakesh Kumar in bribery case. Censor chief had rate card
for clearance, from small-town films to Bollywood. How did IRPS man even get the job?

B.K.S. Iyengar, the world’s foremost yoga guru, passes away at 95. Iyengar Yoga, which stresses on asanas, is still the gold standard in the practice.

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Aug 20, 2014

A man is moved by a line of police as authorities disperse a protest in Ferguson, Mo. USA. On Saturday, Aug. 9, 2014, a white police officer fatally shot Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, in the St. Louis suburb.

- AP Photo/Charlie Riedel

Aug 20, 2014

Rogue caliphate proponents ISIS releases video of a beheading—US journalist
James Foley, of AFP and Global Post, had gone missing in Syria in 2012. ISIS says it’s revenge for US airstrikes on it in Iraq.

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Aug 20, 2014

Irom Sharmila, rights activist who’s been on a hunger strike for 13 years to
protest the draconian AFSPA law in Manipur, gets relief from Imphal court—it dismisses plea that she is attempting suicide.

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Aug 21, 2014

One of the photos that went viral on social media showing a young woman bravely taking on a group of five men who assaulted her husband in Meerut after his motorcycle reportedly brushed against the car the men were driving in. The bystanders, including reportedly a cop, remained just that: bystanders. They did not come to the man's rescue and the young woman fought off the assailants.

- Twitter

Aug 21, 2014

Crazy selfie from Hong Kong skyscraper.

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Aug 22, 2014

A Muslim woman cries as she waits outside Bunga Raya Complex at Kuala Lumpur International Airport before victims' bodies of the ill-fated Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 are flown back, in Sepang, Malaysia. The bodies and ashes of 20 Malaysians killed when Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 was shot down over Ukraine in July have arrived in Kuala Lumpur.

- AP/PTI

Aug 23, 2014

People carry an idol of Lord Ganesh to a pandal ahead of Ganesh chaturthi in Navi Mumbai.

- PTI Photo

Aug 23, 2014

A woman displays a mortar shell allegedly fired on a residential area from the Pakistan side of the border in Ranbir Singh Pura region, Jammu.

A man bends down in prayer as police try to disperse a small group of protesters in Ferguson, Mo, USA. The Aug. 9 shooting of Michael Brown by police has touched off rancorous protests in Ferguson, a St. Louis suburb where police have used riot gear and tear gas. Gov. Jay Nixon ordered the National Guard to help restore order while lifting a midnight-to-5 a.m. curfew that had been in place for two days.